Smithtown, NY Parking Rules: Loading Zones (2026)

Section 322-63 of the Building Zone Ordinance, Article IX (Parking and Loading), requires every building, structure, lot, or land used for a nonresidential purpose to provide off-street truck-loading spaces under a fixed schedule tied to gross floor area: a use with under 40,000 square feet of floor area needs one loading space, and a use of 40,000 square feet or more needs one additional space for every further 40,000 square feet beyond the first 40,000. This schedule follows immediately after the Town's off-street parking-space schedule in the same article, and both are administered together during site plan review by the Board of Site Plan Review and building permit review by the Chief Building Inspector.

Loading spaces must be laid out so trucks are not required to back into or maneuver from a public street, consistent with the access-driveway standards in Section 322-64, which set a 10-foot minimum width for a single entrance or exit driveway and 20 feet for a combined entrance/exit serving loading and parking areas together. Larger nonresidential developments, such as shopping centers or warehouses, calculate their required loading spaces cumulatively as floor area grows, so an addition that pushes a property from 39,000 to 45,000 square feet triggers a second required space.

The schedule is a zoning site-plan requirement rather than a curbside loading-zone hours rule; Smithtown's code does not set separate hours restricting when off-street truck loading may occur on a general commercial site.